A Public Television of Angola (TPA) will continue to invest in technology to modernize working methods and procedures and train the station's staff, according to the Minister of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication, Mário Oliveira.
Speaking in the congratulatory note addressed on the occasion of TPA's 48 years of existence, Mário Oliveira considered the modernization of working methods and procedures and the training of staff as essential for offering a public information service with the expected quality, inclusive and regular.
He stated that throughout his “long and important historical journey”, Angolan television has sought to assume a prominent position in society, but not only, by guaranteeing citizens the constitutionally enshrined right to inform and be informed, with objectivity, impartiality and regularity.
"At a time when the global Social Communication market faces enormous challenges, fundamentally linked to technological modernization, fake news, disinformation, post-truth, but also financial sustainability, TPA maintains and has been reinforcing its essential role in educating the population , reinforcing citizenship, encouraging national production, increasing patriotism, rescuing and preserving moral values, as well as disseminating information based on professional ethics and deontology, which certainly contributes to the better and regular cultural formation of citizens”, says the minister.
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TPA is the first Angolan state television network and the country's main television broadcaster, where its headquarters are in Luanda, which through TPA1, is tuned through Channel 2 VHF.
In 2000, the second channel was created in Luanda, called TPA 2 and the then TPA was renamed TPA 1. In 2003, TPA Internacional was launched, which began to be transmitted to Europe via satellite and which, currently , can be received via the cable network in Portugal.
